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quadrant
quadrant in technology, angle-measuring device based on a scale of 90°. It is sometimes confused with the sextant , a similar instrument based on a scale of 60°. The quadrant is rarely used today. ... Read more
Babel
Babel [Heb.,=confused], in the Bible, place where Noah's descendants (who spoke one language) tried to build a tower reaching up to heaven to make a name for themselves. For this presumption the speech of the builders was confused, thus ending the project. The story was perhaps originally an etiolo... Read more
Darius the Mede
Darius the Mede in the Bible, a king of the Medes who succeeded to the throne of Babylonia after Belshazzar. Otherwise unknown outside biblical tradition, it is likely that this Darius has been confused with Cyrus the Persian, who succeeded Belshazzar and decreed (539 BC) the return of exiled Jews.... Read more
lockout
lockout intentional closing up of a company, factory, or shop by an employer to prevent employees from working during a strike or labor dispute. The term lockout is sometimes confused with the term strike , since what employers will frequently designate as a strike will in turn be referred to ... Read more
labyrinth
labyrinth , intricate building of chambers and passages, often constructed so as to perplex and confuse a person inside. In Egypt, Amenemhet III of the XII dynasty built himself a funeral temple in the form of a great labyrinth near Lake Moeris. More celebrated was a labyrinth in Crete built, accord... Read more
Saint Peter Gonzalez
Saint Peter Gonzalez , 1190-1246, Spanish Dominican priest. He worked first among the Moors, then among the mariners of NW Spain. As a patron of sailors he acquired the name St. Elmo, perhaps in confusion with an earlier mariners' saint of that name, a 4th-century martyr. Saint Elmo's fire was reg... Read more
Ferdinand Bol
Ferdinand Bol , 1616-80, Dutch painter. He studied with Rembrandt in Amsterdam, and his early work (e.g., Elizabeth Bas, Amsterdam) has sometimes been confused with that of his master. His style was modified after 1650 through contact with van der Helst. Thereafter he moved away from a preoccupati... Read more
Chaos
Chaos , in Greek religion and mythology, vacant, unfathomable space. From it arose all things, earthly and divine. There are various legends explaining it. In one version, Eurynome rose out of Chaos and created all things. In another, Gaea sprang from Chaos and was the mother of all things. Eventu... Read more
chigoe
chigoe or jigger, small parasitic flea of tropical America and the S United States. Humans and their domestic animals are the main hosts. The fertilized female bores into the flesh (usually of the feet or legs) and feeds on the blood causing a painful, pustulous sore. She retains her eggs in ... Read more
Freyja
Freyja or Freya , Norse goddess of love, marriage, and fertility. Her identity and attributes were often confused with those of the goddess Frigg. As a deity of the dead, Freyja was entitled to half the warriors killed in battle, the other half going to Odin. She was the sister of the god Frey a... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "A Bit Confused."

Mime in American Theatre
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...between 1977 and 1980. Mime in these instances should not be confused with English‐style pantomime, which flourished in America...1989), and Fool Moon (1993), push the parameters of mime a bit but have endeared many to the old art form. Read more
vasectomy
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...gained in connection with rejuvenation, for many years it was confused in both the lay and the medical mind with castration . The very...through a small puncture wound; the ends are then separated by a bit of tissue. It is interesting to note that Professor Li started... Read more
John Frederick Peto
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the Hunt: William Harnett and Other American Still Life Painters (1953). Frankenstein not only gives a full account of Peto's life but he also succeeds in disentangling his work from Harnett's, with which it had for so long been confused. □ Read more

Dictionary entries related to "A Bit Confused."

channel coding theorem
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing ...such a channel is C = ½ν log 2 (1 + P S / P N ) bit/s If it is a discrete-time channel, ν is the number of...then, by Nyquist's criterion , C = W log 2 (1 + P S / P N ) bit/s This is sometimes called the Shannon–Hartley law...expressions for the capacity of specific channels should not ... Read more

Thesaurus entries related to "A Bit Confused."

senile
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...x2022; adjective  she's in her nineties, but she's not a bit senile synonyms : doddering, doddery, decrepit, senescent, declining...feeble; aged, long in the tooth, in one's dotage; mentally confused, having Alzheimer's (disease), having senile dementia; informal... Read more
indefinite
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...indefinite answer synonyms : vague, unclear, imprecise, inexact, ambiguous, ambivalent, equivocal, confused, evasive, abstruse.   4. she's a bit indefinite about whether she's going or not synonyms : undecided, indecisive, irresolute, vacillating... Read more
trifle
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...trinket, knickknack, gimcrack, gewgaw, toy, doodad, whatnot.   3. I paid a mere trifle for it synonyms : next to nothing, hardly anything, pittance; inf. piddling amount.   4. he is a trifle confused synonyms : bit, small amount, touch. Read more

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Confused about caulk?
Magazine article from: Sunset; 11/1/1987; 700+ words ; Confused about caulk? Filling cracks with mud and straw may be a thing of the past, but when you consider the bewildering array of...performance. Silicone caulks, which come clear or in colors, are an exception--you'll find paintable ones, but these cost a bit more and don't perform as well. Here's rundown of the ... Read more
Hidier, Tanuja Desai. Born confused.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Kliatt; 11/1/2002; ; 498 words ; ...who grew up in America and probably was ABCD (American Born Confused Desi) herself. It has a lot of pages for a YA novel and each...than it ever was before. Hidier's voice is original. Here's a bit of dialogue between the two girlfriends: Gywn says, You see... Read more
Feeling dazed and confused: our most intimate experiences of worship are being transformed by technology.(technology)
Magazine article from: Presbyterian Record; 4/1/2006; ; 656 words ; ...does things very much the way they were done in the early 20th century with a bit of Strasbourg, 1524, thrown in for good measure. Many of us feel dazed and confused due to reams of information streaming at us. Others find it stimulating, new and... Read more
Who didn't kill tobacco killers?(On the Right)(Pres Bill Clinton's and Congress' stance on tobacco industry is confused)(Column)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: National Review; 7/20/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...industry had bought the vote of the senators who said No on the proposed bill. Republican spokesmen took it on the chin for a bit in the public mall, but then one of them came up with a rather cute riposte. Well, he said, maybe it's true that the tobacco... Read more
Confessions of a mountain gunner: in our mind's eye we bravely fight off bears but reality is often a bit more, well ... real.
Magazine article from: Guns Magazine; 8/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...off the ground. I was in a fine state--half-awake, blinded, confused, cowboy boots tangled around each other and haphazardly vertical...on a large farm in LA. LA is short for Lower Alabama. LA is a bit north of the Redneck Riviera, the beautiful white sand and green... Read more
When the customer is confused. (hardware industry) (Column)
Magazine article from: Doors and Hardware; 2/1/1993; 671 words ; Quite often, hollow metal specifications call for frames to be grouted. On exterior openings receiving screw-applied weatherstripping, we have found that the contractor often fails to take this into consideration. It's amazing how many drill bits they can use, and naturally it is the supplier's Read more
Spawn: Every bit his father's son.
Magazine article from: National Review; 8/14/2000; ; 700+ words ; As some fathers inevitably began to insist on being the sole source of authority, their children became confused about their own roles in a family system that was severely stressed by the demands of the dominant, all-powerful father. -Al Gore... Read more
A tough hodgepodge.(Sports)(Houston's offense has a little bit of everything thrown in, making it a challenge for the Oregon defense)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 8/29/2005; 700+ words ; ...find the open man - Houston's freshman quarterbacks are really confused trying to grasp all the variations of the system this fall...motion and shifts Houston uses all serve to keep the defense confused. If you can get somebody thinking out on the football field... Read more
Blog bits: we searched the recent archives of our blog, racewire.org, to bring you a quick snapshot of what you might have missed or just want to enjoy again.
Magazine article from: Colorlines Magazine; 1/1/2008; ; 663 words ; ...the 9/11 topic dead on: Raja's new high school teacher says, Raja, you are so different from us--how does that feel? Raja is confused and speechless. The teacher goes on, How does everybody else feel about Raja and his differences? A girl raises her hand and... Read more
Bits and pieces from local TV news. (St. Louis, Missouri)
Magazine article from: St. Louis Journalism Review; 2/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...cold is conducive to the flu. * Steve Jerve followed Lyles moments later on this Monday night broadcast by telling us he was confused as to what day it was as he said there would be rain later tomorrow night into the early part of Tuesday. Okay, I admit it... Read more